Talk:The Golden Spiders

Characters subsection vs. Plot section

The characters should be listed and identified generally. Currently, the plot seems to be strewn throughout the character descriptions. I don't know enough about the story to clean this up myself. --SidP 00:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Infobox complete; changed "yes" to "no" in the incomplete infobox template. The plot summary has been converted to prose; the characters are in a clean list. — WFinch 03:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Inconsistency?

Inviting comment: In the scene in the garage basement, Archie asks Egan, "Who do you deliver the dough to?" and Egan responds "Birch." During the penultimate scene, in Wolfe's office, Horan says, "You know it, Egan. You know Birch found out she was hogging it, she was giving him the short end ..."

Now, if Egan gave the collections to Birch, how could "she" give Birch the short end? Perhaps Stout intended this as another instance of torture failing to yield dependable information.

But perhaps the book also has some hidden consistency: I have checked on 514 Fillmore Street in Newark. Neither Mapquest nor Google Maps is precise about it, but it is possible that Stout put B. & S. Levine's men's clothing store in the Passaic River, just as he put the brownstone in the Hudson. Is this OR? Sure. But this is a talk page. TurnerHodges (talk) 20:41, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

I don’t remember the details of the relationships within the blackmail ring – or, for that matter, whether we got much in the way of details from the story – but she was the top of the pile, Egan was at or near the bottom and, as these operations usually work, never the twains shall meet. So I think it’s plausible that Egan would have been delivering the collected loot to Birch, who was high enough up in the pecking order to turn it over directly to her, and also plausible that she wasn’t giving Birch what he thought should have been his fair share when she made the distributions to the lot of them.

As to 514 Fillmore Street being located in the Passaic River, I’m sure that NW fans will appreciate your OR even if Wiki doesn’t, and yippee for Talk pages. Now you've got me thinking that Archie Goodwin might have had some kind of river fetish, but since that’s POV I’ll refrain from adding it to his entry.RRRRowcliff (talk) 05:04, 17 December 2007 (UTC)